‘Law and Development: New Institutional Approaches from the Global South’ was jointly organised by the Law School, University of São Paulo and the FGV Direito SP – Escola de Direito de São Paulo, with support from World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research, CAPES, and CNPq.

Participants were invited to address questions such as: how does law design the different arrangements of political economy, including institutions such as markets, political regimes, and states? Considering local contexts of policy-making, under which conditions does law act as an enabling, emancipatory, or restraining tool?

The event was an opportunity to discuss new ways of thinking about law, institutions, and development and to be part of a promising and interdisciplinary research agenda.

DAY 1 | 5 August 2019
USP Faculty of Law

09:00 | Opening remarks
Diogo R. Coutinho (USP), Mario Schapiro (FGV) and David Trubek (Wisconsin-Madison)

10:00 | Panel 1: Law, Political Economy and Institutions Roundtable
Anna Chadwick (University of Glasgow), Jedidiah Joseph Kroncke (The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law), Diogo R. Coutinho (USP Law School)

14:00 | Panel 2: Democratic institutions in movement
Bojan Bugaric (University of Sheffield), Carla de Paiva Bezerra (USP/Cebrap), Michel Riegner (Humboldt University), Henrique Almeida de Castro (USP)

16:00 | Panel 3: Corruption and reform in the Global South
Catherine Greene (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative), Antonio Andreoni (SOAS University of London), Raquel Mattos Pimenta (USP Law School)

17:30 | Book Launch: “The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality” by Katharina Pistor
Comments by Michelle Badin (FGV), Anna Chadwick (University of Glasgow), Mario Schapiro (FGV), Diogo R. Coutinho (USP)

DAY 2 | 6 August 2019
FGV Law School

9:00 | Keynote lecture
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School)

10:45 | Panel 4: Financial regulation
Leslie Elliot Armijo (Simon Fraser University), Daniella Prates (Unicamp), Mario Schapiro (FGV)

13:45 | Panel 5: Socio-legal architecture of markets
André Nahoum (USP), Gustavo Onto (UFRJ), Pedro Salomon (USP/FGV), Sarah Marinho (USP/Wisconsin)

15:45 | Panel 6: Internet & competition
Wendy Ng (University of Melbourne), Lílian Cintra de Melo (USP), Beatriz Kira (USP)